The nature of his encyclopaedic subject matter naturally makes his vocabulary very extensive; but in syntax and general tone of language he does not differ materially from contemporary writers.
Another modern study of theEncyclopaedic movement is the monograph of L.
While they advocated a thorough reform of the principles which ruled the fiscal policy of governments, the Economists were not idealists, like the Encyclopaedic philosophers; they sowed no seeds of revolution.
It is the motif of the Opus Majus, and it would have been more fully elaborated if he had lived to complete the encyclopaedic work, Scriptum Principale, which he had only begun before his death.
We may name first the casual works which represent separate parcels of his encyclopaedic gleanings, and then glance at his putting together of them, in his Etymologiae.
Yet before, as well as after them, the men possessed by the passion for knowledge of the natural world, were frequently devoted to some branch of inquiry, rather than encyclopaedic gleaners, or universal philosophers.
The last encyclopaedic scholar belonging to the antique Christian world, he became one of the great masters of the Middle Ages (see ante, Chapter V.
So is his encyclopaedic compilation, De universo libri XXII.
His friend Terentius Varro was a more encyclopaedic personality, and an eager student in all fields of knowledge.
His encyclopaedic learning shows itself in a treatise on Jewish weights and measures, and another (incomplete) on ancient gems.
I here offer a translation of the third or last part of Hegel's encyclopaedicsketch of philosophy,--the Philosophy of Mind.
When Romilly saw Diderot in 1783, the greatencyclopaedic chief assured him that submission to kings and belief in God would be at an end all over the world in a very few years.
As a monument of his Arabic learning and his encyclopaedic knowledge of Eastern life this translation was his greatest achievement.
She is chiefly known for her Hortus Deliciarum, a remarkable work, encyclopaedic in character, which she wrote for the nuns of her convent and which was designed to embody in words and in pictures the knowledge of her age.
Here is, probably, the place to make mention of a woman of encyclopaedic mind, Clemence Augustine Royer, who was born in 1830 in Nantes, France.
All that we had written on the subject of the grand schism between the Greeks and Latins, in the essay on the manners and spirit of nations, has been inserted in the great encyclopaedic dictionary.
One of our colleagues in this little collection of philosophic and encyclopaedic questions is now engaged on a moral work, on the subject of scandal, against the opinion of Brother Patouillet.
It is not concerned with analytical jurisprudence as a theory of legal thought, or an encyclopaedic introduction to legal teaching.
In fact, it may be said that if the encyclopaedicdictionary did not exist it would have to be invented; that its justification is its indispensableness.
The ideal thus developed is primarily that of the general dictionary of the purely philological type, but it applies also to the encyclopaedic dictionary.
The encyclopaedic type itself, although it has often been criticized as hybrid--as a mixture of two things which should be kept distinct--is entirely defensible.
Thus the Century Dictionary has encyclopaedic features, while the present edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, restoring its earlier tradition but carrying out the idea more systematically, also embodies dictionary features.
Moreover, the large vocabulary of the general dictionary makes it possible to present certain kinds of encyclopaedic matter with a degree of fulness and a convenience of arrangement which are possible in no single work of any other class.
The addition of encyclopaedic matter to the philological in no way affects the general principles involved.
What some of the journals lacked in suitable length for the occasion, they made up in encyclopaedic information about other similar murders and shootings.
He had been a great reader all his life, and a remarkable memory had stored his mind with encyclopaedic information.
He appears to us as one of the most receptive, one of the most encyclopaedic intellects of modern times.
And it may well be asked, therefore, whether this encyclopaedic diversity can aptly be called universality.
At any rate, whether a defect or a quality, there can be no doubt that this encyclopaedic diversity has turned to the great advantage of his glory.
Gesner's most remarkable characteristic was his versatility and encyclopaedic knowledge; he has been called the Pliny of his time.
In the course of his 'Natural History,' which is an encyclopaedic account of the knowledge of his time, he treats of the vegetable world.
For my part I chose the glorious career of scholar in its ancient sense; I longed to possess encyclopaedic learning, to grow old amongst books, to distil day by day, and year after year, the inmost sweetness of all worthy writings.
Rabelais was perhaps the greatest of all the encyclopaedic scholars; and he, as you know, wrote the most remarkable book that has ever been written.
Mention has already been made of Latini's Tesoro and Tesoretto, Uberti's Dittamondo and similar encyclopaedic works of medieval learning.
Cino was a jurist of encyclopaedic erudition, as well as a sweet and fluent singer.
Two encyclopaedic treatises, dealing with philosophy, are often mentioned.
The first part of an encyclopaedic work probably remains to us in the Compendium Studii Philosophiae (1271).
In the summary of this part, contained in the Opus Tertium, Bacon shows very clearly his perception of the unity of science and the necessity of encyclopaedic treatment.
Such a reader will refuse to pass beyond the First Part of the vast encyclopaedic poem.
Albertus Magnus was anencyclopaedic student and author, who took all knowledge for his province.
Skinner in the elaborate and encyclopaedic International Critical Series.
He was a voluminous and encyclopaedic writer, but too indolent to apply the vigorous method of his master.
Not only grammar, by which term we must understand philology and etymology as well as syntax, but antiquities secular and religious, and almost all the liberal arts, were passed under review by hisencyclopaedic mind.
Augustus's library on the Palatine, manifested an activity scarcely less encyclopaedic than that of Varro.
The task of the exact cataloguer is full of difficulty, constantly renewed, and demanding almost encyclopaedic knowledge, and incessant care of minute particulars.
And just as if theencyclopaedic learning required was lessened by the fact that the plot of the perfected play was borrowed or rewritten from an older drama of the same name!
The encyclopaedic universality of their information as to matters of fact; and, 2.
Empedocles of Agrigentum, a sort of magician and high-priest, almost a deity, whose life and death are but little known, appears to have possessed an encyclopaedic brain.
The Synthetic Philosophy, just completed, is distinguished for the vastness of its design, the accomplishment of which gives Mr. Spencer a place among the few encyclopaedic thinkers of the world.
They are the fruit and representation of a spirit of encyclopaedic curiosity and productiveness.
His numerous volumes are the fruit and exposition of a spirit of encyclopaedic curiosity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encyclopaedic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
